Golden threads began weaving themselves into more complex shapes. Swords formed in the air around Phineas, their blades made entirely of solidified thread, and then spears also started to form. Soon, all around Phineas was an arsenal of weapons swirling around him.
Phineas gestured, and the weapons launched forward in waves. Thread-swords swept in horizontal arcs while thread-spears thrust straight and rushed towards the trio.
Reinhard's blade became a blur as he parried and deflected, each impact sending sparks flying where metal met solidified thread. A sword grazed his shoulder, cutting through his uniform jacket and drawing blood.
Marie spun her spear overhead, creating a defensive shield that caught multiple projectiles. But a thread-spear slipped through her guard and scored a line across her thigh. She gritted her teeth and continued fighting without pause.
Joseph used his lance's spiral design to redirect attacks, the rotating motion catching thread-weapons and flinging them aside. A sword nicked his cheek while a spear tore through his sleeve, but he maintained his position.
They pushed through the barrage, closing distance despite the obstacles. Reinhard activated Ragnarok as he reached optimal range. Fifteen simultaneous slashes appeared around Phineas, cutting through his thread platforms and severing the weapons he had created.
Phineas dropped toward the ground but caught himself with new threads attached to the ceiling. He swung like a pendulum, narrowly avoiding Marie's thrust that would have caught him mid-fall.
Joseph anticipated the swing and positioned himself at the arc's end point. His lance swept upward as Phineas came within range, the spiral tip catching the threads supporting him and tearing them apart.
Without support, Phineas fell the remaining distance and hit the ground rolling. Then, as he pushed up, golden light condensed around Phineas hands, and when he stood, he held a pair of gleaming swords made entirely from compressed threads.
He crossed them just in time to block Marie's thrust and then spun to deflect Joseph's lance strike.
His thread-swords moved with impossible speed, parrying Reinhard's heavy blow.
"He is using the threads to help pull his body and increase his speed." Joseph shouted.
"Haha, don't you know spoilers during the show are looked down upon. But you're half-right~" Phineas said lightly as he began moving.
Phineas's footwork was swift as his golden swords left trails of light as they moved. He manifested a third blade from threads in front of him before it was flung forward and rushed towards Joseph. But Joseph simply thrust out his lance, which crashed into the blade and scattered it into golden lights.
More weapons materialized in front of Phineas, such as golden spears that Phineas hurled in rapid succession. Marie rushed between two of them, deflecting the third, and sliding underneath the next two.
While Reinhard simply ran through the barrage, Zenuken turned into a blur as he cut and split any weapons that came close. Joseph's lance became a spinning shield, threads disintegrating against it.
All of them reached him, forcing Phineas to backflip and shoot threads at the ground that pulled him twenty feet backward. As he landed, he swept his arm in a wide arc, creating a wave of golden thread-needles. The trio scattered before then immediately reconverged on his position and clashed with him.
Over twenty moves were exchanged between all four figures before Phineas was pulled away, and the others stared at him with a frown.
There were scratches across Reinhard's uniform, Marie's sleeve was torn where a thread-blade had grazed her, and Joseph's shoulder showed a thin line of blood.
Phineas elaborate coat was singed and torn in multiple places, a bruise darkening his jaw where debris from Reinhard's earlier strike had caught him. Golden threads flickered around him, but his breathing had grown noticeably heavier.
"Impressive teamwork, as expected of supporting roles on my stage." Phineas admitted, rolling his shoulders as threads began weaving new weapons around his hands. "But I'm far from finished."
"No, it's done." Reinhard says as his sword shined and then activated Drasil Step.
Instantly everything slowed down before he grabbed Marie and Joseph's shoulders before hurling them forward. Then he rushed forward, moving past their slow-moving body, and then swung his sword forward.
Ragnarock
Instantly, massive sword slashes appeared in front, cutting, hacking, chopping, slashing, and splitting the golden threads in front. The thread in the air was chopped into pieces while the thread around Phineas was hacked apart. And even the threads behind him were destroyed by an upward slash.
Then time returns to normal.
Phineas blinked as he felt himself falling and quickly stretched out his hand. But then Joseph, as he was sailing through the air, used Drasil Step, and time slowed. He then grabbed onto Marie's shoulder before landing on the ground and rushed forward. After another second passed, he hurled Marie forward and used Wind Drift on the golden threads coming out of Phineas.
Time returns to normal.
Phineas eyes widened as his golden thread drifted to the ground below and pulled him forward just as Marie closed in. He gritted his teeth before he spread his hand, and webs of golden threads began forming.
But Marie had been expecting this.
Marie used the Herald Marker's shared ability to activate Wind Drift, altering the air currents around Phineas. The threads that were moving to form a web had drifted off course, forming an incomplete and odd web. She then gripped Longinus, which was shining with a golden-crimson light.
Marie then thrust forward through the incomplete web of threads. The spear punched through golden strands and drove toward Phineas' chest, and the light blasted him forward, straight into another door in the room.
An ear-splitting sound rang out!
Phineas figured that he was consumed by the golden light blasted through the door and continued forward, with the hallways being illuminated. Marie fell on the ground before rolling and then stopping.
Just as a thunderous noise rang out, the area around shook.
"Hahaha, just like Rein said. It's the end." Marie says as she sat up with a grin.